Slow Cooker Potato & Sausage Soup

This Slow Cooker Potato & Sausage Soup is a hearty soup that is simple to prepare. By using Simply Potatoes you save loads of time chopping.

With fall right around the corner I’m looking for deliciously easy recipes that will satisfy my family. I tend to use my slow cooker more often during the fall and winter months, making a variety of entrees, soups and stews. Using my slow cooker helps ease the dinnertime madness during the week and on the weekend it frees me up to enjoy other activities.

I recently made a wonderful Slow Cooker Potato & Sausage Soup which is hearty and easy to prepare. A large batch of soup is a wonderful solution to nights when you have family arriving home at different times. If this happens in your home you know what I’m talking about. You have the older kids who arrive home from school but have to leave for sports practice or part-time jobs.Then there’s the younger kids that get home from school closer to dinnertime, but have activities they need leave for in between doing homework. And don’t forget your spouse who has a meeting that’s running over and will hit traffic getting home. Basically soup in a slow cooker is the perfect solution to these crazy nights, when not everyone can gather for dinner at the same time. Keep the slow cooker on the handy “warm” setting and problem solved, eat when you can.

For this delicious soup, I used Simply Potatoes Diced Potatoes. Have you used Simply Potatoes? You can find them in refrigerated section of your local grocery store. By using Simply Potatoes, I saved time washing, peeling and dicing potatoes, while getting this soup into the slow cooker. Why not save some time here and there? I chose to use Simply Potatoes Steakhouse Seasoned Diced Potatoes which brought a touch of additional flavor to the soup. You can certainly use the unseasoned varieties of Simply Potatoes, just jazz up your soup with some seasonings of choice. The soup winds up having great flavors from all the ingredients with nice chunks of potatoes and sausage. Just serve with some crusty bread and you have a great meal with very little effort.

I would use it to make lots and lots of freezer meals! Who has time for cooking every night? Not this girl!!
Speaking of — do you think your Slow Cooker Potato Sausage Soup would translate well into a freezer meal?

I’d love to have one of these programmable crocks. I could **cook all the things!!!** I’ve been doing freezer bag meals for a couple of months now and my crock hasn’t seen this much action in years! I think she’s getting a little old and worn out already lol!

I have two larger crock pots that aren’t programable, which makes it a pain to use them. I’d make this soup and some overnight blueberry French toast so I can make meals easier once we bring the new baby home.

Oh man, the first thing I would do would be to REMAKE all my first blog posts, the majority of which are slow cooker recipes and family favorites. Then it would be soup time. I am craving soup like none other. Maybe I am getting sick, maybe Fall is officially in the air.